From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
Cc: | Horák Daniel <horak(at)sit(dot)plzen-city(dot)cz>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Subject: | Re: FW: [CYGWIN] 7.2b3 postmaster doesn't start on Win98 |
Date: | 2001-12-04 14:54:51 |
Message-ID: | 28646.1007477691@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
>> Unless someone can think of a reasonable runtime check to
>> distinguish win98 from newer systems, I think we have little
>> choice but to make the data directory permissions check be
>> #ifndef __CYGWIN__. I don't like this much, but (a) I don't
>> want to hold up 7.2 while we look for better ideas, and (b)
>> no one should consider a Windoze box secure anyway ;-).
> This check actually caused me *much* grief when I was testing on Win2K/XP.
> It required that the cygwin ntsec option is enabled which in my case caused
> me even more problems with my Cygwin installation. I vote for the #ifndef
> __CYGWIN__...
Oh, so it's (in essence) an optional feature on Cygwin? And someone
else pointed out that it depends on the filesystem in use, too.
Okay, I think the answer is clear: #ifndef __CYGWIN__ for 7.2. We can
think about nicer approaches for 7.3.
I'll apply the change shortly.
regards, tom lane
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